Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

Bible References

Days

Psalm 90:7
Indeed, we are consumed by your anger and terrified by your wrath.
Numbers 14:29
Your corpses will fall in this wilderness every single one of you who has been counted among you, according to your number from 20 years and above, who complained against me.
Numbers 26:64
But none of these men among these numbered by Moses and by Aaron the priest (that is, when they numbered the Israelis in the wilderness of Sinai) survived to enter the land,
Deuteronomy 2:14
Now from the time we left Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Wadi Zered was 38 years. All of that generation, the soldiers in the camp, were destroyed just as the LORD swore they would be.

Years

Genesis 3:16
He told the woman, "I'll greatly increase the pain of your labor during childbirth. It will be painful for you to bear children, "since your trust is turning toward your husband, and he will dominate you."
Job 5:6
For wickedness doesn't crop up from dust, nor does trouble sprout out of the ground;
Job 14:1
Human beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
"Utterly pointless," says the Teacher. "Absolutely pointless; everything is pointless."
Ecclesiastes 12:8
"Utterly pointless," says the Teacher. "Everything is pointless."

General references

Ecclesiastes 4:7
Then I turned to re-examine something else that is pointless on earth:
1 Corinthians 10:5
But God wasn't pleased with most of those people, and so they were struck down in the wilderness.

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